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> Subject:      New Words for the Week
>
>  1)  Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just
>      after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
>
>  2)  Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets
>       into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out.
>
>  3)  Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that
>       stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,
>       unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near
>       future.
>
>  4)  Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders
>       the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
>
>  5)  Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a
>       grub in the fruit you're eating.
>
>  6)  Decaflon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the
>       day consuming only things that are good for you.
>
>  7)  Dopelar effect (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem
>       smarter when you come at them rapidly.
>
>  8)  Extraterrestaurant (n.) An eating place where you feel
>       you've been abducted and experimented upon. Also known as
>       an E-T-ry.
>
>  9)  Faunacated (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its
>       environment is destroyed. Hence faunacatering (v.), which
>       has made a meal of many species.
>
>  10) Foreploy (n.) Any misrepresentation or outright lie
>        about yourself that leads to sex.
>
>  11) Grantartica (n.) The cold, isolated place where art
>       companies dwell without funding.
>
>  12) Hemaglobe (n.) The bloody state of the world.
>
>  13) Intaxication (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund,
>        which lasts until you realize it was your money to start
>        with.
>
>  14) Kinstirpation (n.) A painful inability to move
>        relatives who come to visit.
>
>  15) Lullabuoy (n.) An idea that keeps floating into your
>       head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.